Licenses
You allow others to use your IP in exchange of royalties
- licensing doesn't take much money.
Royalties
- paid quarterly
Open Source
Pros
- prototype
- internal tools
- SaaS tools
- use it if will not be distributed
Cons
- never use AGPL license.. can force you to release all your code to the public
contracts
- permissive
- weak copyleft: eg BSD (Unix), MIT.. it's mine but you can use it
- strong copyleft: GNU, LGPL remain proprietary,